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<H2><A NAME="s1">1.</A> <A HREF="bftpddoc-en.html#toc1">Introduction</A> </H2>

<P>bftpd is an FTP server for Linux, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, Solaris, DG-UX and Tru64. (I don't know if it runs on other systems, please mail me if you have tried it). It runs either with inetd or standalone.</P>
<P>It tries to be very configurable while being fast and small. You can make defaults for each configuration option, and then override these defaults in user-specific and directory-specific structures.</P>
<P>Features of bftpd include:
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<LI>Easy configuration</LI>
<LI>Speed</LI>
<LI>Support for most RFC FTP commands</LI>
<LI>tar.gz on-the-fly compression/archiving</LI>
<LI>Security with chroot without special setup</LI>
<LI>No need for files (sh, ls...) in a chroot environment</LI>
<LI>Logging to wtmp and to a logfile or syslog</LI>
<LI>PAM and passwd/shadow support</LI>
<LI>Support for SITE CHOWN/CHMOD</LI>
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